"We are critical and skeptical. But when we are absorbed in a story, we drop our intellectual guard."

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Source : Jonathan Gottschall (2012). “The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human”, p.152, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Jonathan Gottschall

#Intellectual Quotes #Stories Quotes #Skeptical Quotes

“Unfortunately, we are still in an age where individuals may be discriminated against because of health conditions.”
“Beginning of all knowledge comes from humility.”
“And as I've gotten older, I've had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindness, tolerance, compassion, a gentler way of looking at things.”
“My favourite part... I guess it's my legs.”
“The world when I was 13 wasn't truly driven by tabloid magazines and social media and reality shows. I was able to have a little more of a private life.”
“I live in East Hollywood which is sort of the end of the grit, butting up against Silverlake and Los Feliz which are the refined gentrified hipster zones, which I tend to appreciate when I need to get coffee, but I like living in the grit. I like feeling separate from that elitist civilization in some way, even though I don't really "belong" in the grit either. But I do spend more than half my time now in the desert which is really nice - to be off the grid, remembering that the world is bigger than the city streets.”
“The cinema is there to heighten the imagination; I have always tried to make sure it does so.”

Source : "The grand illusionist" by Jonathan Glancey, www.theguardian.com. October 28, 1999.
“Great, now Iâ€™ve turned into a manga character who repeated everything everyone said.”

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